AAGPThe Internet Geriatric Psychiatry Self-Assessment Program is great to help you prepare for subspecialty certification or recertification examinations and is approved for 42 Self-Assessment CME credit hours by ABPN. For more information go to, www.aagponline.org/iGPSAP

Thank you AAGP members for coming to the #AAGP2018 Meeting

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AAGP Board

AAGP 2018 Scholars

AAGP Past President – Past President Reception

Plenary session

Save the date for the #AAGP2019 Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia on March 1-4

EurekAlertSitting too much is linked to changes in a section of the brain that is critical for memory, according to a preliminary study by UCLA researchers of middle-aged and older adults.
Studies show that too much sitting, like smoking, increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes and premature death. Researchers at UCLA wanted to see how sedentary behavior influences brain health, especially regions of the brain that are critical to memory formation.
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HealthDay News via U.S. News & World ReportDivorce, death in the family, money troubles and serious health problems don't just stress you out — these negative life events may actually accelerate the aging of your brain, new research suggests.
"We used a new algorithm to predict brain aging after horrible life events — like divorce or death — and negative life events accelerate brain aging by about one-third of a year for each event," said study lead author Sean Hatton, a project scientist at the University of California, San Diego.READ MORE

WSBT-TVRight now more Americans are dying from Alzheimer's than ever before.
That includes an almost 15-percent rise in the last couple years among Hoosiers alone.
This comes directly from a just-released study from the Alzheimer's Association.READ MORE

PsychiatryAdvisorThe findings of a prospective cohort study in Psychological Medicine identified the presence of a psychotic disorder in men as a significant predictor of dementia, although the specific mechanisms underlying this phenomenon have yet to be clarified.
The authors recruited 37,770 men aged 65 to 85 from the 1996 to 1998 Australian Electoral Roll. The men had no diagnosis of dementia at index.READ MORE

Clinical AdvisorThe National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer's Association has proposed updates to the 2011 guidelines for symptomatic or clinical stages of Alzheimer's disease to include the concept that certain imaging and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers are valid proxies for neuropathologic changes of AD, according to a study published in Alzheimer's & Dementia.
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Chicago Tribune via The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionMedical student Mila Grossman had just begun her first clinical rotation when she started to get an idea of what kind of doctor she wanted to be.
Working at a women’s mental health clinic, she met a new mom who appeared put-together but inwardly suffered from painful postpartum depression.
Grossman decided to pursue psychiatry, and is among a growing share of medical students doing the same.READ MORE